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MARK STEYN: “The Economist is the latest of the smart guys to notice that President Obama is provin…
Instapundit — ... MARK STEYN: “The Economist is the latest of the smart guys to notice that President Obama is proving strangely unlike the guy they told us he was back in late October.” ...

Economist to Obama: ‘Lead, Dammit’
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... and Mark Steyn argue that the reason Obama isn’t meeting The Economist’s expectation is not so much his managerial incompetence but rather that he’s much more liberal than he pretended to be on the campaign trail and therefore has a very different agenda.   As Steyn puts it, The nuancey boys were wrong on Obama, and the knuckledragging morons were right. There is no post-partisan centrist “grappling” with the economy, only a transformative radical willing to make Americans poorer in the cause of massive government expansion. I’m reminded once again of a line ...

Cluebat Wacks The Economist
Pirate's Cove — ... Mark Steyn: This is the point: The nuancey boys were wrong on Obama, and the knuckledragging morons were right. There is no post-partisan centrist “grappling” with the economy, only a transformative radical willing to make Americans poorer in the cause of massive government expansion. At some point, The Economist, Messrs Brooks, Buckley & Co are going to have to acknowledge this. If they’re planning on spending the rest of his term tutting that his management style is obstructing the effective implementation of his centrist agenda, ...

Hope Was Never a Strategy
Neptunus Lex — ... Which is what those who opposed his candidacy believed all along, people who - in return for their doubts on thin a resume and the most liberal voting record in the US Senate - were cast as Luddites who didn’t get it, this whole “hope” and “change” thing; ...

Even The Economist says He is not who they thought He was...
The Discerning Texan — Via Mark Steyn at The Corner, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what is happening: The Economist is the latest of the smart guys to notice that President Obama is proving strangely unlike the guy they told us he was back in late October: His performance has been weaker than those who endorsed his candidacy, including this newspaper, had hoped. Many of his strongest supporters—liberal columnists, prominent donors, Democratic Party stalwarts—have started to question him. As for those not so beholden, polls show that ...